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Old 07-09-2008, 11:37 AM   #871
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Dear H WHAT WERE YOU THINKING waiting to see if that running water sound in the kitchen wall would go away?!

Dear me WHAT WERE YOU THINKING listening to H? He may be a smart guy, but he did not get the home maintenance gene. And you KNOW this!
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Old 07-09-2008, 01:40 PM   #872
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All US airlines officially suck. I can't boycott any of them because the next one is just as bad.
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Old 07-10-2008, 08:14 AM   #873
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Ok, H - you have vetoed my totally-all-agreed-upon plan for the moving in college trek. Now where are the details for your plan - cost analysis ? etc. 6 busy weeks left - we need firm plans (& reservations) NOW !!
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Old 07-10-2008, 08:37 AM   #874
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To a teacher?:
Why'd you have to embarass me in front of the class. Next time take me to the side and then tell me. Why'd you ruin my senior year?

To some people:
Why do you all want to be doctors???? It's something special to be a doctor. Don't abuse it and think it's easy or like your backup career. And you!!! Stop trying to establish a financial base or something what BS!!! And stop bragging so much.

To you: Why are you so perfect? Why can't I have a life as good as yours?

Some others:
Get a job and stop taking money from my family. Sure we're family, but we can only help you so much.
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Old 07-10-2008, 09:49 PM   #875
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To those in charge: You are supposed to be professionals. How hard is it to make airline reservations for a couple of students when their destination is only one state away? How ridiculous that S received his itinerary with flight arrangements today for a trip that starts next week and you have him on a flight that stops two states short of his destination. What is he supposed to do? Hitchhike?

He would gladly drive his own vehicle but since yur organization will not allow it, please at least make an effort to get him a flight into the city he is supposed to land in!
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Old 07-10-2008, 10:10 PM   #876
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To all women that decide to squat above the seat - please clean up your sprinkle.

Honest to goodness, the squatter toilets in China are starting to make sense to me! I am sick and tired of wiping toilet seats in public bathrooms because people are so germ phobic that they just spray all over the seat... Yuck!!
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Old 07-11-2008, 04:58 PM   #877
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It is bad enough that you provide lousy internet and cable service, that your customer service people are rude and your tecnicians are incompetent, but now you have the NERVE to charge me for some throw-away, unreadable TV channel guide that I didnt order in the first place?? How much more smarmy can you get? Do you want your customers to hate you more than they already do?!?!?!? (Note to cc readers-- check your cable/internet bill if you suddenly started to receive monthly channel guides. We were getting charged an additional $3.40/month for this junk.)
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Old 07-14-2008, 05:17 PM   #878
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Are you fricking kidding me?! GM's white collar cuts will hit design engineers hardest? Cut the folks who already do the amount of work many more used to do? What about the upper level managers who only have one or two people reporting to them? I guess it's impossible to expect the ones running the place (into the ground, by the way) to cut any of their buddies ...

EEEKKKK!!!
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Old 07-16-2008, 12:12 PM   #879
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Oh jeeze! It's absolutely not my problem in any way that you made a bad financial decision. It wasn't my problem when you first made the decision, and isn't my problem today. You're supposed to be so smart--hah. I really wish I could tell you to grow up and deal with the consequences of your actions. It was a dumb decision. Deal with it and quite calling me about it. NOT MY PROBLEM!
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Old 07-16-2008, 12:51 PM   #880
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I'm honestly beginning to worry that I'll never find a career from which I derive genuine satisfaction, and it makes me feel as if I've failed at feminism.
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Old 07-16-2008, 05:53 PM   #881
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You're the boss. I'm the assistant. You make 4 times as much money as I do. So why am I the one doing your job? Why do I have to take the lead on everything? Why do I feel responsible if our dept looks like fools? For heavens sake, get off your butt and earn your salary!
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Old 07-17-2008, 12:52 AM   #882
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Please stop blaming Dad for things that aren't his fault. When you blame him for losing his job when he threw out his back, you sound cruel. When you start blaming him for giving my brother and I a relatively harmless blood disorder, you just start sounding crazy. I know the divorce was messy, but get over it. You may be paying for college alone at the moment, but at least you have money to do so: he doesn't even have a job. Couldn't you show a little mercy, considering his late alimony payments are the result of needing to get food? You already get half of his pension...
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Old 07-17-2008, 09:39 AM   #883
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Dear Potential Employer: S spent many hours preparing for your interview. He left here in a new shirt, drove two hours (plus gas), arrived 10 minutes early, and by your account had a great interview. Despite your assurances that you'd be in touch by "Wednesday" for this "immediate" hire, your timeline for notifying applicants of the outcome has come and gone. Thank you letter, phone calls & emails unreturned. Well bud, we know a few folks in your neck of the woods and apparently you'd already promised the job to your neighbor's kid and you "had to go thru the motions to satisfy company policy". You knew all along, you got S hopes up with a big rah-rah and a "looking forward to working with you kid!" How ethical of you. Oh, congrats on your kid's placement with your town agency, isn't your neighbor related to the commissioner? Water rises to its own level - clearly you're in the shallow end of the gene pool.
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Old 07-17-2008, 11:26 AM   #884
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Dear apartment,

I have spring-cleaned you several times, and have donated many bins of clothing and household goods in order to try to get all of our belongings to actually fit into your less-than-a-thousand square feet. You know I hate mess. When I first moved in, you failed to accommodate my stuff with your lack of closets. With a lot of communication and some tears, we moved past that. Then, when DH and I got married and he brought in all of his stuff, you cooperated even less. It took quite a while to rearrange you to get everything arranged with your highly inefficient floorplan. Now, when I'm trying to fit all of my late grandmother's heirlooms, plus everything that I needed to remove from my parents' houses after the divorce so that they may each move, you're flatly refusing to take any more.

I know. I know I'm asking a lot of you, little apartment, but we have to work together to make this work. We're a team here, apartment.

If only you would just develop a linen closet for me, I would be so happy.
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Old 07-17-2008, 03:26 PM   #885
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dear b.,

it kind of hurts that you never reply to my emails. i get that you're the most responsible intern in the world and can't imagine ever checking personal email at work, but it'd be really nice if you could manage it in your free time every other week at least-- & write a sentence or two, or bring it up with me later that day, or anything like that. i don't even email you that often.

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dear cameliasinensis,

cheer up, sleep more, & worry less. you'll be happier.

love,
your more rational self
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